AVACTA GROUP PLC — Share Issue/Capital Change 2017

Dec 18, 2017

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Avacta Group PLC

18 December 2017

18 December 2017

Avacta Group plc

("Avacta", "the Group" or "the Company")

Issue of Equity

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, today announces that following the exercise of share options by founder shareholders in an historic acquisition it has issued and allotted 340,502 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

Application has been made for the Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and dealings are expected to commence on 22 December 2017. The Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.

Following Admission, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will be 68,973,337. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information from Avacta Group plc, please contact:

Avacta Group plc Alastair Smith, Chief Executive Officer Tony Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer	Tel:  +44 (0) 844 414 0452 www.avacta.com
finnCap Ltd Geoff Nash / Giles Rolls - Nominated Adviser Tim Redfern / Alice Lane / Nikita Jain - Corporate Broking WG Partners Nigel Birks / Nigel Barnes David Wilson / Claes Spang	Tel:  +44 (0) 207 220 0500 www.finncap.com Tel:  +44 (0) 203 705 9318 Tel:  +44 (0) 203 705 9217 www.wgpartners.co.uk
Zyme Communications (Trade and Regional Media) Katie Odgaard Yellow Jersey PR (Financial Media and IR) Sarah Hollins	Tel: +44 (0)7787 502 947 katie.odgaard@zymecommunications.com  Tel: +44 (0)7764 947137 avacta@yellowjerseypr.com

About Avacta Group plc (www.avacta.com)

Avacta's principal focus is on its proprietary Affimer® technology which is a novel engineered alternative to antibodies that has wide application in Life Sciences for diagnostics, therapeutics and general research and development.

Antibodies dominate markets worth in excess of $100bn despite their shortcomings.  Affimer technology has been designed to address many of these negative performance issues, principally; the time taken to generate new antibodies, the reliance on an animal's immune response, poor specificity in many cases, and batch to batch variability.  Affimer technology is based on a small protein that can be quickly generated to bind with high specificity and affinity to a wide range of protein targets.

Avacta has a pre-clinical biotech development programme with an in-house focus on immuno-oncology and bleeding disorders as well as partnered development programmes.  Avacta is commercialising non-therapeutic Affimer reagents through licensing to developers of life sciences research tools and diagnostics.

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